Statewide County NcArchives Military Records.....Prescott, Austin 
Revwar - Enlistment 
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Colonial Records
Petition from Austin Prescott concerning his military service in the 
Revolutionary War
Prescott, Austin
Volume 22, Page 154

AUSTIN PRESCOTT.

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, 
To the Honorable the Secretary of War of the United States:
The petition of Austin Prescott, a citizen of the United States, sheweth that 
he entered the service of the United States as a private soldier in the War of 
the Revolution in the North Carolina Artillery, in the Continental line, in 
the company first commanded by Captain John Vance and afterwards by John 
Kingsbury; he served in said company in the North and in the South against the 
common enemy for upwards of five years when he was discharged. Deponent was 
with the army which was captured at Charleston but at the time of the capture 
was with the waggons sent to Georgetown for provisions and escaped the fate of 
the army at Charleston.

He received a discharge but has lost it.

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